Director

CORPORATE AND FINANCE

About Shiao Ning

Areas of Practice

Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions and General Corporate

Experience

Shiao Ning has acted for companies in their initial public offerings and fund raising exercises on the equity and debt capital markets including rights issues, private placements, issue of convertible securities and bonds. She also has experience in takeovers of listed companies, mergers and acquisitions of listed and unlisted companies/businesses, and corporate restructuring exercises including privatizations, capital reduction exercises and schemes of arrangement.

Transactions of significance include:

• Acted for RSH Limited in the mandatory general offer for its shares by the Emaar Properties group
• Acted for Cyber Village Holdings Limited in the reverse takeover of Koyo Engineering (S.E. Asia) Pte Ltd
• Acted for SunGard Asia Pacific Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SunGard Data Systems Inc., in its SGD$120 million conditional offer to acquire all the shares of System Access Limited, a company providing software solutions for the banking and financial services industry in South East Asia, China, Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• Acted for Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore Branch, the independent financial adviser to SembCorp Logistics Limited in the S$1.4 billion takeover of SembCorp Logistics Limited by Toll Holdings Limited
• Acted for PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance Pte Ltd, the financial adviser to NutriAsia Pacific Ltd in connection with its US$215 million takeover of Del Monte Pacific Limited by NutriAsia Pacific Ltd
• Acted for Sumitomo Asia Capital Pte Ltd in its accession to a US$3 billion Euro Medium Term Note Programme
• Acted for the Keppel Corporation group of companies in the privatizations of listed companies such as Keppel TatLee Finance Limited, Keppel FELS Energy & Infrastructure Ltd, Keppel Hitachi Zosen Limited and Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Ltd
• Acted for Swift Investments Holdings Pte Ltd in its sale of UBS Warburg & Associates (Singapore) Pte Ltd, a stock broking company, to the Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation Group valued at S$124.5 million
• Acted for Keppel TatLee Bank Limited in its acquisition of the private banking and treasury operations of Allied Irish Banks plc valued at approximately S$351 million
• Acted for Keppel Bank Singapore Limited in the merger of Keppel Bank and Tat Lee Bank